N04855:434
Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…
Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings: &c. In a letter to a pious friend in England. / By Thomas Shepard, M.A. Formerly of Emmanuel-College in Cambridge in England: afterward Minister of Cambridge in New-England. ; Corrected by four several editions.
Boston: printed by Rogers and Fowle, 1747
THE Sum of Christian Religion: In Way of Question and Answer.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. Wherein consists our Observance of God?
A. It is either Moral, or Ceremonial.
Q. Wherein consists our Moral Observance of GOD?
A. In two Things: 1. In suffering his Will, whereby a Believer, for the Sake of Christ, chooseth rather to suffer any Misery, than to commit the least Sin. Heb. 11.26. Acts 21.13. 2. In doing his Will, whereby a Believer, in Sense of Christ's Love, performeth universal Obedience to the Law of God. Rom. 7.22. 1 Joh. 5.3. Luk. 1.6. Phil. 3.12